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Australian politician signs off career with a 'shoey' (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 11 months ago by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 76 points 11 months ago (1 children)

McGinn told local media he did it to show there were normal people in parliament

..as he's leaving parliament

[–] DozensOfDonner@mander.xyz 34 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Drinking beer from a shoe is normal now?

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 22 points 11 months ago (3 children)

You never drank Bailey's from a shoe?

[–] ZombieGary@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Want to go to a club where people wee on each other?

[–] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

Do you love me?

Could you learn to love me?

[–] CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

No, but I hear it goes well with a nice Chianti.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago

Creamy

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 11 months ago

It is in Australia, apparently 🤷

[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 39 points 11 months ago

The lady beside him seems like she should be chanting "Her-cules! Her-cules!"

[–] Mitchie151@lemmy.world 34 points 11 months ago

Legend

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I can't stop laughing at this thread. That's so effing gross... What the hell is wrong with you people?

Old Greg want supposed to be instructional.

[–] anzo@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

What's his crime? Drinking a succulent beverage??

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 17 points 11 months ago (5 children)

That's fucking digusting, who thought drinking beer from a shoe was cool??

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 45 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Aussies. And you'll do it with them, if you're ever lucky enough to be near their a celebrations

I know from Daniel Ricciardo popularized it in Formula 1

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 40 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Id rather drink a fosters than beer out of a shoe

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 22 points 11 months ago

I'd rather drink my own fermented piss than drink a fucking fosters.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 15 points 11 months ago

That's both Australian and I Australian at the same time. Well done. You've broken Aussie stereotypes forever. A real "yeah, nah"

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 13 points 11 months ago

Just a whole country of old Greg’s.

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I've done didgeridooie

We found a prosthetic leg in the park and my mate did a legie from it

I've seen blokes do them through raw fresh fish too

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

That last one just sounds awful for the fish

[–] PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Does this hurt the fishie?

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 2 points 11 months ago

According to Nirvana they don't have any feelings

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

From what I know it's mostly something you do as the loser of a bet.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's not about being cool. It was a statement.

[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 9 points 11 months ago

it'saboutsendingamessage.jpg

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

That's amazing. Good for him!

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 10 points 11 months ago

King shit

[–] Bot@sub.community 9 points 11 months ago

Unless you are a feet fetish sub, I can’t think of another reason to like this drinking style

[–] redwattlebird@lemmings.world 6 points 11 months ago

Yeah... Nah...

[–] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Ewww!

[–] immortalluna@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Its a big thing in the whitewater community in the US as well

[–] fitjazz@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 11 months ago

Nothing quite like a booty beer after a swim.

[+] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml -17 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Australia expects us to respect them as a nation and then they pull this shit

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

And may I ask which oh-so-respectable nation you're from?

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

You're cringe

[–] JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

If you're that close to disrespecting them as a nation on the world order for having some unique tradition you don't share, you never really respected their culture and were waiting for a chance for it to be excusable

There are two very different types of respect; respect for a person as a human being, and respect for a person as an authority. But because we use the same word for these two different things, people often talk as if they were the same thing. So for example, when someone in authority says “If you don’t respect me, I won’t respect you.” What they’re actually saying (and justifying) is “If you don’t respect me as an authority, I won’t respect you as a human being.”